Parliamentary panel calls for higher MGNREGA wages
Financial Express Mumbai|December 14, 2024
FLAGGING LOW WAGES under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a Parliamentary panel has asked the rural development department to increase wages in the scheme by linking it to a suitable index commensurate with inflation.
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Parliamentary panel calls for higher MGNREGA wages

"Rising inflation and cost of living, be it in urban or rural setting, has risen manifold and is evident to all. Even at this moment, going by the notified wage rates of MGNREGA, per day wage rate of around ₹200 in many states defies any logic when the same State has much higher labour rates," said the panel on rural development headed by Congress MP Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka.

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